What setup method is planned for pkgbase?

Hello,


back in times (sysinstall(8) aera), when geom(4) was extended for GPT 
(and gpart(8) got the ability to write GPT labels) I created my own, 
highly customized installer, which has the drawback that it still 
requires a special distribution media (iso with cpio archives). My plans 
to support the official ISO never materialized, but it's still providing 
a sophisticated (auto-partitioning) ZFS and UFS setup job likewise for 
UEFI and BIOS based system (emerged from a embedded project) and 
provides a radical update concept: newfs (UFS factory snapshot with 
auto-backup+restore, resp. new ZFS datasets). It is focused on 
productive servers, with as much read-only mounts as possible (and 
omitting dev bytes on those strictly productive machines) and was a 
sysinstall(8) substitution.

Since the ammount of machines to deploy massively decreased for me, and 
pkgbase seems to be more or less ready ('make packages' left a beautiful 
repo), I want to replace my customized installation methods (transfering 
all it's features for optional usage).
I'm planning to use whatever FreeBSD uses by default.  Currently, it's 
bsdinstall(8) I guess (which I never used), but I'm not sure if it is 
planned that bsdinstall(8) will be made pkgbase compatible.

Is anyone already working on a pkgbase-based installer (different than 
bsdinstall(8))?
Maybe I can implement my additional options/features in a way useful for 
FreeBSD too.  I'm personally focusing on local repo - media backed for 
the beginning.  Would be a honor to help making some progress in that 
area (2nd half of this year will allow me to spend some more time on 
that). Skills: not many besides sh(1), but a lot of experience in 
real-world needs and ready to improve C finally :-) And quiet familiar 
with build(7) and make(1) of course.

Does anybody know anyone who could want help for pkgbase installer and 
would want to ramp me up?

Best,

-harry